My Simple, Happy, Beautiful Life

For my job, I am writing a literature review and article on emerging adulthood at BYU. I love my job. Seriously, I can't even write about how much I love my job. I have read over journal articles about emerging adulthood and it is so interesting to me. I am in this stage currently so I understand exactly how I feel and relate to this developmental stage. First of all, I am going to give you a background. The stage is relatively new. Arnett proposed this new stage in 1990 and research is still coming out about it. It is between the ages of 18-25. Before individuals were getting married, getting jobs and having a family and income before the age of 25. I think there are so many factors in why marriage is delayed that we can't say its because people have no desire for marriage. But, this stage of emerging adulthood is meant for exploration as individuals explore with school, relationships and careers. It is a time where they are not classified as an adult but they are no longer ...

It is Young the Giant, "Apartment". Recently, I have found this radio station on pandora called, alternative indie love songs. It is my favorite radio station and this is where I found my new favorite song. I would post the music video, but it is kinda weird. The song is just relaxing for me and I love it. I was thinking about going on a mission, but I realized that I wouldn't be able to listen to music. That was one of the things that made me decide not to go. There are several reasons why I decided not to go, but I can't give up my music. I know it sounds really selfish, but we have our favorite things we can't give up. You can listen to my new favorite song and love it too. I share my favorite music.

Today was quite the snowy day. I woke up and looked outside and decided to not go to Zumba. There are numerous videos about this lovely day of icy roads and streets. I will show them to you. There lots of reactions of people ice skating, surfing on the ice, falling, hurting themselves and my favorite the ice shuffle. The ice shuffle is very technical. I mastered it in Rexburg after my grandpa taught me it. It is simple one foot forward with no heel-toe. You simply "march" on the ice. "Marching" on the ice will give you more balance and help you not fall. So, if you want to try out this nice little "ice shuffle", please do. This is what I woke up to. Somedays, I wish I was in Florida. This is the perfect time for DisneyWorld. I want to go in the Disney stores and look at all the cute Disney kitchen items and go on a African safari in Animal Kingdom. Life in Florida was much more warm and fun. Orlando was amazing and not crowded in the winter. So, who ...

It is my favorite thing to do now. I am in beginning ice skating and seriously it is amazing. I learned how to spin. I am not very good at it. The thing I am good at is stopping. I know that sounds ridiculous. It is a good skill to have in ice skating. Most people can stroke pretty well. They increase in their speed, but they can't stop so they run into the wall and hurt themselves  So, there is technique to stopping and it is difficult. But I was stroking and increasing speed and stopped without hitting the wall. This my friends, is my accomplishment for the day. I stopped without hitting a wall in the ice skating arena. I screamed with delight and had my classmates look at me weird.  I scream at delight at weird things. I went to a free chocolate making class and was so excited to win things in the raffle. I have never won anything in a raffle and want to badly. It is one of my bucket list items for sure. They were giving away a pineapple corer and I wanted it so bad...

I am lucky. So lucky. And today was one of those days where I just looked back and thought to myself: "wow". I am so blessed. I not trying to say I am better than all of you because I am blessed. I am just saying that God must love me because I have had so many blessings in my life. I can't not thank God for my blessings because I have so many of them.  I can't even write about all the amazing experiences and friends I have had at BYU and just in my life. As I look back as when I started as a freshman in college, I have changed so much. I have had the most amazing people come into my life and help me change to become better. I am so happy I have made friends with everyone I currently know. They inspire me and help me be motivated to become better daily.  I encourage all of you to think about your blessings in your life. It will bring happiness as you recognize the fact that you are very blessed. Even when you are going through hard times, you can find blessing...

If you want to gain a testimony that God exists, then study Behavioral Nuerobiology (the brain). I am taking that class right now, and I absolutely love it. Now I understand that everyone may not be nerdy like me and love the brain, but I recommend you study science. Science is fascinating. I love it because everything is so exciting! I never thought I would say that, but it is true. When I study the brain structure and functions, it fascinates me. There has to be some great creator to make the brain. The brain is so complicated yet so simple. There are so many areas of the brain that "specialize" in a function, but ultimately the brain works together to get the job done. So if one area is damaged, there are other areas that may cover for the damage. It is amazing. Tomorrow for class, we are going to see a brain. It has been hardened over time, but we will be able to see it up close. In my nerdy ways, I feel like its Christmas Eve. The teacher was so excited to tell us that...

I laugh a lot, and recently I have laughed a lot. I want to write about my most recent funny moments in my life. 1. I was crashing a ward prayer, I knew some people there so It wasn't entirely weird. I met this guy who started talking to me and then he found out I was a psychology major. He then started using psychology pick up lines on me. My favorite part about being a psychology major is the responses you get. But, he precedes to ask me if I can read palms. I tell him, "unfortunately, we don't learn that in my major". He tells me that I am being modest and tries to grab my hand. I have met this boy for 5 minutes so I am not comfortable with him holding my hand just yet. I hide my hand. He says, "okay, let me read your palm, give me your hands". I look at him weird and say, "no thanks". The conversation dies. He leaves. I found it really funny in this uncomfortable situation. 2. I met another boy at this ward prayer. We connected in some ways...

I was in a really good mood today and I have no idea why. Maybe it is because I am graduating in April or had Zumba today after a long break from not having Zumba. Like I said, Zumba is my favorite form of exercise. I just woke up thinking "today will be a good day". I woke up late, put on my exercise clothes and walked to Zumba in 14 degree weather. It was warm to me. Today we had a "heat wave" meaning it went up to 20  from being 0 degrees.  I found it a miracle in the increase of tempature. It was a nice surprise not having to wear 50,000 layers. Anyways, I was walking across campus and there were lots of gloomy faces. I wanted to walk up to them and smile and say "It will be a good day". I should just go sing "don't you fret...even though alabama won, there is still hope for you" (The college bowl). People would look at me weird if I did that, but I wanted to tell people that life is good today. Everyday is a new day with new people to ...

I was talking with my roommate while watching America' Next Top Model and were talking about what we could model. If I was a model, I would model my eyes. My roommate said she would model her ears. It is a good question. You don't need to be size 2 to be beautiful. There is a plus size model on the show and she does really well. It is a good reminder that size isn't everything. There are different definitions of beautiful other than being size 2. So, what is your beautiful feature (s) and if you had to chose one feature, what would you model? I think that every person contains at least one beautiful feature. Society tries to define beauty in a limited window. I see, let's broaden the beauty window and accept women as they are. If every woman looked the same, then beauty wouldn't exist because there would be no variety. But, the point of this blog is for you to think about what your beautiful feature is and learn to appreciate it. Even if you have pretty eyebrows...

I am going to post my friends status to show how it can be confusing: " It's hard living in different places and visiting home. cuz you realize nothing changed but you. wish I could stay in just one place so I didn't feel so out of place or different sometimes. I can't settle or get to know people better cuz I just leave anyway". Well, I understand her point because I feel the same way.  I am in a different place and sometimes it is hard for me to relate to others. I could. It dosen't seem worthwhile when I know that I am leaving in two weeks again. I feel bad because I bet the people in my ysa ward are really nice and I could get along with them, I just have a hard time. I don't want to sound like I am better than everyone else in my ward. I am just at a different place at my life. It is frustrating and hard to come home. The good thing about this break were my nephews. Without them, I probably would of been bored. These twins are so cute. I love th...